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Phillipian Satire: Email Complaint About Scheduling from a Freshman in 5 Sections of Calculus

Dear Mr. Shows,

While reviewing my course list like every other diligent Andover student, it was brought to my attention that I was mistakenly placed into some “required class.” Like any average Junior at Andover, my schedule consists of the basics: AP accelerated AB calculus, AP statistics, honors mathematics seminar, multivariable calculus, and linear algebra. The problem is that there seems to be a class for the remedials known as “Art 225” on my schedule. Do you think Pythagoras was teaching his pupils how to shade circles? Didn’t think so. As such, I would like to get an exemption from this sorry excuse for a “requirement” and add organic chemistry to my schedule instead. I would also like to pick up computer science instead of that pointless “lunch” period (eating won’t get me into Harvard, now will it?). If I want to have a triumphed career like Oppenhiemer I will need his physique. You will keep me posted, as I hear Exeter is far more rigorous (pretty sure Franklin Pierce didn’t have anything to do with Iraq).

Live long and prosper,
Maxwell Silverfeldt